Wheel Spin Missions

Cresign · May 6, 2022

I got preety bored in SFS, so i decided to pick missions to do using a wheel!

Basically i have two of them.

This one that has almost all of the stock SFS objects (except for Sun and Jupiter which i'll explain later):

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And this one with various missions:

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Every now and then i'll spin the wheel and choose my mission which i'll post here. That's also why there's no Sun and Jupiter, some of these missions are too easy, too hard or straight up impossible when involving them.

And here's the first one, and quite challenging at that! Space station around Io.

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The station will of course be preety small, but i'll use Team Frontier regulations as my guide

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One more thing, i'll try to not use Infinite Build Space while doing those missions, however i expect to use clipping in a bigger amount, i don't think i have to explain why

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Cresign · May 6, 2022

Cresign12 said:

I got preety bored in SFS, so i decided to pick missions to do using a wheel!

Basically i have two of them.

This one that has almost all of the stock SFS objects (except for Sun and Jupiter which i'll explain later): View attachment 83054

And this one with various missions:
View attachment 83055

Every now and then i'll spin the wheel and choose my mission which i'll post here. That's also why there's no Sun and Jupiter, some of these missions are too easy, too hard or straight up impossible when involving them.

And here's the first one, and quite challenging at that! Space station around Io.
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The station will of course be preety small, but i'll use Team Frontier regulations as my guide

.

One more thing, i'll try to not use Infinite Build Space while doing those missions, however i expect to use clipping in a bigger amount, i don't think i have to explain why

.

Uhh, i think i'll skip the escape spacecraft tho, where would it escape to from Io?

Cresign · May 6, 2022

Launch

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First stage separation

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LEO

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Transfer to Jupiter

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Second stage and fairing separation

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Encounter with Jupiter

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Arrival at Jupiter

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Io capture burn (third stage ran out of fuel so i had to pump some from the habitat module)

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Io orbit

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Station separated

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Station deployed

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Photo of Io

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That was a quite nice mission

Edit: Oops what the heck is that attachment doin

Altaïr · May 7, 2022

Whoa, a very ambitious mission!

That remembers me when I built the jovian gateway, a massive station orbiting around Europa. Too bad that I never finished it!

However I built it in LEO and sent the whole station in a single trip. That was probably one of the biggest objects ever implied in a gravity assist

Cresign · May 7, 2022

Altaïr said:

Thanks, yeah i could imagine how good it was, probably so heavy one of the moons took a gravity assist too

Cresign · May 7, 2022

Hmmm i feel like i could do a next mission, this time its gonna be:

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Crewed Phobos landing! Thats way easier than the last mission

Cresign · May 7, 2022

Launch

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Booster separation (boosters had more fuel than the core stage so first i pumped the fuel into the core stage)

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Core stage and fairing separation

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LEO

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Trans-Martian burn

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Mars encounter

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Mars arrival

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Phobos encounter

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Second stage separation

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Phobos touchdown

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Pic of Phobos

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Departure from Phobos

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Transfer to Earth

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Earth encounter

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Lander stage separation

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Reentry

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Parachute deployment and heat shield separation

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Earth touchdown

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That's it for today

, i liked this mission and im kinda glad it was simpler this time

James Brown · May 7, 2022

Cresign12 said:

I got preety bored in SFS, so i decided to pick missions to do using a wheel!

Basically i have two of them.

This one that has almost all of the stock SFS objects (except for Sun and Jupiter which i'll explain later): View attachment 83054

And this one with various missions:
View attachment 83055

Every now and then i'll spin the wheel and choose my mission which i'll post here. That's also why there's no Sun and Jupiter, some of these missions are too easy, too hard or straight up impossible when involving them.

And here's the first one, and quite challenging at that! Space station around Io.
View attachment 83056
View attachment 83057

The station will of course be preety small, but i'll use Team Frontier regulations as my guide

.

One more thing, i'll try to not use Infinite Build Space while doing those missions, however i expect to use clipping in a bigger amount, i don't think i have to explain why

.

Wow! I like how u use the wheel to decide your mission!

Cresign · May 7, 2022

James Brown said:

Yeah at first i just wanted to complete all achievements but they were broken so i decided to do this

0xAstral · May 7, 2022

are u also gonna do that in a custom solar system?

Cresign · May 7, 2022

0xAstral said:

Not for now

Cresign · May 7, 2022

Another day, another spin!

And uh... That's gonna be hard...

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Well wish me good luck

Altaïr · May 7, 2022

Cresign12 said:

Good luck then!

I like how you tend to pick the most difficult choices. Even on your first try, you picked what was practically the most difficult mission, the only worse I can imagine being the ground station on Io (maybe Mercury)

Cresign · May 7, 2022

Altaïr said:

Well i have no decision here, the wheel does that for me

Also a screenshot from the test flight, yeah it didnt end well

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Cresign · May 7, 2022

That mission took very, very long mainly because of need to slow down before reentry, trajectory may be inefficient but it works, i'll try to make future return missions to Jupiter better planned.

Launch

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Booster separation

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Core stage separation

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LEO

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Transfer to Jupiter

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Jupiter encounter

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Jupiter arrival (captured into elliptical orbit using Ganymede gravity assist and second stage)

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Second stage separation

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After 3 Ganymede gravity assists and 1 accidental Europa assist i made encounter with Callisto

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Callisto orbit

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Callisto landing

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Callisto departure

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Transfer to Earth and lander stage separation

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This is where the tough part began, i couldnt just encounter Earth and reenter because i would burn up of course. So i made total of 5 gravity assists in that order:

Earth
Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars

Afterwards this was my encounter

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Capsule separation

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REALLY crispy reentry

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Parachute deployment and heat shield separation

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Touchdown

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That was the hardest mission yet! Waiting for optimal trajectory was very frustrating and i hope to improve my ways in the future, i hope you enjoyed

Edit: Weird attachments attack again

Cresign · May 7, 2022

Ok, time for the forth mission!

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Another mission in Jovian system... It seems they just love me doing stuff there! Time to establish permament human presence on largest Moon of the Solar System!